They came crashing down

It has finally happened. Knapp and Storms dormitories are no more. Story and a sweet video of the implosion can be found here. Iowa State also put up a video on their front page. (www.iastate.edu)

I almost lived in towers. I was assigned there for my freshman year. But when I found out about it over the summer I did not want to live there at all! I thought I would hate it for most of the same reasons that made it so great to live there. I switched to helser before I moved in so I unfortunately never got to experince the towers life.

I may have never lived there, but I like to think that I got to experience at least some of what it was like from living in helser and willow halls, which created much of the same atmosphere that towers did. The lack of air conditioning, timy rooms, overflow housing in the dens, doors open all the time, building a tight community on th floor all made it one of the most fun places to live. Ask any of the 42,000 people that lived there over the 40 years it was used. They will all say how fun it was and would not trade those memories for anything.

The Des Moines Register covers a few of the memories here as referenced in Amanda's Blog.